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enOrganization to address employment and career advancement for transgender peoplehttp://www.glaad.org/blog/organization-address-employment-and-career-advancement-transgender-people
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img class="media-image" id="6" style="float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;;;;;" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/487391_225684524239093_778436789_n.png?itok=5PNt4iu1" alt="" />The <a href="http://www.transgenderprofessionals.org/" target="_blank">Association of Transgender Professionals</a> (ATP), a not-for-profit organization serving people with non-conforming gender expressions and identities who seek to advance their professional careers, has been endorsed by a national advisory board of voluntary leaders and allies, and will officially launch this week. Led by Executive Director Denise Norris, ATP will encourage networking and mentoring to strengthen careers and promote the next generation of leaders.</p>
<p>"Our belief is that in the setting of the workplace it should not matter why or how an employee expresses their gender," said Norris. "What ultimately matters is that the employee can fulfill the duties of the job for which they were hired.”</p>
<p>According to the <a href="http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/ntds_summary.pdf" target="_blank">National Transgender Discrimination Survey</a>, transgender respondents experienced unemployment at twice the national rate, with rates for transgender people of color at four times the national rate. Nearly half of respondents reported experiencing an adverse job outcome, such as being fired, not hired or denied a promotion, because of being transgender or gender non-conforming. </p>
<p><img class="media-image" height="302" id="2" style="height: 302px; width: 423px;;;;;" width="423" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Transgender_incomegraph_NTDS.png?itok=liNUXIyz" alt="" /><br />ATP's official launch will take place at the <a href="http://www.trans-health.org/" target="_blank">Philadelphia Trans Health Conference</a>, where the organization will be <a href="http://www.trans-health.org/content/trans-employment-law-101-how-protect-yourself-discrimination" target="_blank">sponsoring a workshop</a> titled, "Trans Employment Law 101 - How To Protect Yourself From Discrimination." ATP has received start-up funding from the Palette Fund, and has also been awarded a matching challenge grant by the Calamus Foundation for $25,000. </p>
<p>Find out more about ATP at <a href="http://www.transgenderprofessionals.org/" target="_blank">www.transgenderprofessionals.org</a>, or connect with ATP on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AssocTransProfessionals" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. </p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">June 10, 2013</span></div></div></div>
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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:39:34 +0000daniheffernan66428 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/organization-address-employment-and-career-advancement-transgender-people#commentsNick Krieger: A New Voice in Transgender Memoir and LGBT Advocacyhttp://www.glaad.org/2011/06/13/nick-krieger-a-new-voice-in-transgender-memoir-and-lgbt-advocacy
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Nick-Krieger1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-38040" title="Nick Krieger" src="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Nick-Krieger1-227x300.jpg" alt="" width="204" height="270" /></a>Several GLAAD staff members attended an event at Bluestockings Bookstore in New York City last week to celebrate the release of a new memoir by Nick Krieger, titled <em><a href="http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0092" target="_blank">Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender</a></em>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The book chronicles Nick’s unique experience with his gender identity through the character Nina. In the book, Nina explores gender and sexuality through conversations and experiences with friends, family, lovers and strangers while finishing graduate school and approaching the end of her 20's. After settling into the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco following years of work in travel writing, and discovering a diversity of gender non-conformity, Nina finds herself feeling less and less connected to her female identity.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As the title suggests, Nina’s journey is free of any pre-determined destination; rather, the book probes at the parameters of the gender binary, making space for those of us who are neither here nor there. Yet even as the character grapples with challenging questions about her place in a limited gender system, Nick’s wit and humor bring a lighthearted tone to this contemplative narrative. <em>Nina Here Nor There </em>confronts ‘difficult to articulate’ feelings around gender and identity, and asserts that they are still very worth exploring.<a href="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Nina-Here-Nor-There3.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-38048" title="Nina Here Nor There" src="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Nina-Here-Nor-There3-194x300.jpg" alt="" width="155" height="240" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The blog <a href="http://feministing.com/" target="_blank">Feministing</a> <a href="http://feministing.com/2011/05/31/not-oprahs-book-club-nina-here-nor-there/" target="_blank">says of the book</a>, “In our media context, where only one kind of narrative about transition seems to be allowed, this alternate personal story can feel pretty revolutionary.” <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/" target="_blank">Random House</a> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/209100/nina-here-nor-there-by-nick-krieger/9780807000922/" target="_blank">describes</a> it as “the next-generation <em>Stone Butch Blues</em>—a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nick was born in New York, but now lives in San Francisco. He has written for <a href="http://www.365gay.com/tag/nick-krieger/" target="_blank">365Gay</a>, <a href="http://www.originalplumbing.com/author/nick/" target="_blank">Original Plumbing</a>, and other publications. Check <a href="http://nickkrieger.com/" target="_blank">his website</a> for a list of his upcoming events.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://bluestockings.com/" target="_blank">Bluestockings</a> is a bookstore, activist center, and fair trade café located at 172 Allen Street, and holds events almost every night.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em>GLAAD’s National News and Transgender Advocacy Fellow Angela Dallara contributed to this post</em></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">June 13, 2011</span></div></div></div>
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Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:20:07 +0000daniheffernan33994 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/2011/06/13/nick-krieger-a-new-voice-in-transgender-memoir-and-lgbt-advocacy#commentsThe 10th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrancehttp://www.glaad.org/2008/11/20/speaking-out
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The below post is written by Moe Macarow, GLAAD’s Media Programs Fellow.</p>
<hr />Today marks the <a href="http://www.transgenderdor.org/">10th Annual Transgender</a> <a href="http://www.gender.org/remember">Day of Remembrance</a>, an international observance honoring the lives lost due to anti-transgender violence in the U.S. and around the world.
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<p>If this were one week ago, I would have blogged about fifteen transgender and gender non-conforming people who were murdered in America this year. Not only is fifteen a high number, it is most likely underestimated. A large number of transgender deaths go unreported or misreported, and accurate statistics are impossible to calculate since they are not collected, mostly due to lack of federal hate crimes protections for transgender Americans.</p>
<p>If this were one week ago, the list of 15 names we would pause to remember would have included <a href="http://glaadblog.org/2008/11/18/transgender-week-of-remembrance-reflecting-upon-those-lost/">the names</a> of Brian McGlothin, Patricia Murphy, Stacy Brown, Adolphus Simmons, Ashley Sweeney, Sanesha Stewart, Lawrence King, Simmie Williams, Lloyd Nixon, Ebony Whitaker, Angie Zapata, Jaylynn L. Namauu, Ruby Molina and Aimee Wilcoxson.</p>
<p>However, last Friday we sadly added one more name to the list of lives lost this year due to anti-transgender hatred and prejudice.</p>
<div style="width: 166px;float:right;"><a href="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/01_moses.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4055" title="Lateisha" src="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/01_moses.jpg" alt="Lateisha Green. Image from News-10." width="156" height="224" /></a>
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<p>The sixteenth death was <a href="http://glaadblog.org/2008/11/19/vigil-held-for-lateisha-green/">Lateisha Green</a>. Only 22, Green was shot to death outside a friend’s house on the night of November 14 in Syracuse, New York. Her friend Alyssa Davis had called her to invite her over to a party, where she was murdered while standing in front of the house for nothing more than being transgender. And just days before the 2008 observance of <a href="http://www.glaad.org/publications/kits/dayofremembrance/">Transgender Day of Remembrance</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.hrc.org/issues/1508.htm">Human Rights Campaign (HRC) estimates</a> that 1 in 12 transgender Americans face the chance of being murdered, and the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP)’s <a href="http://www.ncavp.org/common/document_files/Reports/2007HVReportFINAL.pdf">recent report showed</a> that the largest increase in violence against any demographic targeted transgender men.</p>
<p>These statistics are unacceptable.</p>
<p>This year for Transgender Day of Remembrance, we should not only honor the victims of senseless, hate-motivated violence - we must work each day forward to make sure that these sixteen lives are the last victims to be mourned.</p>
<p>Today, we must pledge to speak out against hate and for transgender equality. We must strive as a community to put an end to anti-transgender violence. Even one more murder is too many.</p>
<p>And if you have experienced discrimination because of your gender identity or expression, reach out to the community and call the:</p>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.srlp.org/">Sylvia Rivera Law Project</a> at (212) 337-8550</li>
<li><a href="http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org/">Transgender Law Center</a> at (415) 865-0176</li>
<li><a href="http://www.avp.org/">Anti-Violence Project</a>at (212) 714-1141 (24-hour bilingual hotline)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.transgenderlegal.org/">Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund</a> at (646) 862-9396</li>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">November 20, 2008</span></div></div></div>
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Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:15:01 +0000glaad31365 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/2008/11/20/speaking-out#comments